Join the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests as it celebrates its new Moody Mountain Forest Reservation on June 11 at 10 a.m.

This is an easy hike that will end about 1 p.m. It is free.

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The 252-acre Moody Mountain Forest Reservation is new to the state's largest conservation organization.

"We’ll walk to the height of land along a new, mile-long loop trail created at the request of land donor Cecily Clark, who requested the trail be built to provide recreational access for the community. Forest Society staff will guide this hike through a beech-oak-hemlock forest with areas of spruce and white pine," the forest society's website reads.

Stone walls show the land’s former use as pasture land.

The hike is 1 and 1/2 miles round trip.

The reservation is named after Abner Moody, Clark’s great, great, great grandfather.

He was granted the adjacent 320-acre Moody Mountain Farm for his Revolutionary War service.

Not only will this protected land provide the community and its visitors a place to recreate, but to learn about and celebrate the wealth of cultural and natural history.